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Anil Dash AI harms action essay

Taking action against AI harms - Anil Dash

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Mike Masnick Anil Dash

“Yeah I do think a harm-reduction framework is a good approach in general. It was what I had in mind with the suggestions in this piece anildash.com/2026/02/23/t...”

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Anil Dash: You know, the thing is, I had drafted this piece a month ago, and then never published it, because I thought maybe it was too mean.
Anil Dash: Truly, check the datestamp. A month ago.
Anil Dash: (Yes, believe it or not, there are things I don’t say on the internet. Somewhere around 50-75% of what I write is still in the vault waiting for the right time.)
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8 experts · 59 posts · 19d ago
Anil Dash Tim Kellogg Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) VE, cybersocial occult investigator tachikoma Doll Jed Brown apenwarr.ca
Multiple readings Policy & governance · 2 Opportunity & adoption · 1
apenwarr.ca: So far no labour saving device in the history of humanity has resulted in a long-term reduction in employment.
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): So far no labour saving device in the history of humanity has resulted in a long-term reduction in employment.
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6 experts · 19 posts · 10d ago
Anil Dash Colin Mary Branscombe Doll coty.bsky.social mackuba.eu
Reaction converging Questions & unknowns · 4 Concern & critique · 1
Anil Dash: What denial? It is absolutely false to say it's an inclusive place. It is straight-up a place where you're welcome to tell most of us that you want us dead. It is a place where you can be paid to p…
Anil Dash: If you think *those things are okay*, then say that. But we're not in denial. We just have standards. Say that your standards have changed from who you used to be when you didn't do business with p…
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6 experts · 13 posts · 17d ago
Margaret Mitchell Anil Dash VE, cybersocial occult investigator Anthony Moser Mary Branscombe Abstract Tesseract
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Context & explanation · 1
Anil Dash: Exactly this. And in fact, many models *have* been created this way, and decades of prior machine learning systems *were* created this way, consensually. These things are choices! People are STILL …
Anil Dash: I can’t emphasize this enough — “AI” wasn’t born corrupt and toxic. For ~75 years, it was mathematicians and scientists doing interesting, thoughtful work and trying to solve problems, making only …
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3 experts · 22 posts · 2d ago
Anil Dash Eileen Clancy 🧿 Julian Sanchez
Anil Dash: Just bumping into this again with people _reflexively_ using the word "grape" or a 🍇 emoji and not even realizing they're doing it. It's all part of the same system, where the men running these com…
Anil Dash: "We need to raise awareness!" Of what, the word that the most powerful and popular platform for mass communications systematically censor, without anyone even having a comment or complaint about it…
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4 experts · 5 posts · 2d ago
Hypervisible Anil Dash Robin Berjon Alix Dunn
Multiple readings Markets & investment · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Alix Dunn: And he talks about empire like it's a worthy flex that we need to learn how to do effectively!?
Hypervisible : Really wild......former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has published a piece in @foreignaffairs.com that seems to be mostly a ripoff of @karenhao.bsky.social book 'Empire of AI'.....the title of the artic…
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2 experts · 14 posts · 10d ago
Anil Dash Mary Branscombe
Anil Dash: I am normal, I don't hang out with platforms and people that sell child porn. That's who I was ten years ago; that's who I've stayed. That's *the big things*. It is the people who have stayed on Tw…
Anil Dash: Genuinely, I pity the people who do not realize that they've been brought low. I wish their past selves could see what they've become, and talk some sense into them. "How much would it take," they …
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2 experts · 8 posts · 8d ago
Anil Dash Mary Branscombe
Anil Dash: One thing I appreciate about advancements in machine learning is, struggling with executive function, being able to use plain English to find things & create automations has been extremely helpful.…
Anil Dash: I've been thinking about trying to write up more of what I'm doing, especially since I largely just use things that run on my machine and use my own data, which I think people find a lot more accep…
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3 experts · 3 posts · 9d ago
Simon Willison Alondra Nelson Anil Dash
Simon Willison: I spotted Claude doing something similar recently, didn't realize ChatGPT had that too I don't really understand these features :/
Alondra Nelson: Apparently ChatGPT on macOS, when starting a conversation in "work" mode, grants continued remote access to the computer it was started on to anyone logged in to the same account, including the web…
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